I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole) for yielding. These are strange times. I saw my friend Alcee Hastings on the floor. I wanted to sit down beside him and whisper in his ear like we would have done when we gathered last year. I…

I thank my friend from Arizona for yielding. I want to stipulate, Madam Speaker, that I have seen the gentleman from Massachusetts, the leader of our committee, do some things on that committee that no one else has tried to do. I was in…

Will the gentleman yield? Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I would prefer not to be interrupted. I am in the middle of--Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia, because he keeps on interrupting me.

I don't think of it as interrupting. I apologize to Chairman McGovern. I think of it as elucidating. What my friend has said is absolutely right. This process has been used before, just not for this purpose, which is why Politico ran…

I thank my friend from Illinois for yielding. I have so many things that I want to say now in light of that. The truth is, Mr. Speaker, I just came over, had to walk out on some constituents to be here. Hunter Pruett is in town. He is…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 223, nays 189, not voting 17, as follows: [Roll No. 26]…

If we defeat the previous question, we will offer an amendment to the rule that will make in order a bipartisan resolution, an amendment to deal with fentanyl and its listing on schedule I. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman…

Everything we have talked about has been partisan and divisive. What you have just heard from the gentleman from Oregon is to say, in the midst of why ever it is the majority has chosen to use this rule today to move partisan priorities…

I know my friend from Maryland is prepared to close. We had a bipartisan pathway forward on credit reporting agencies and reform, but the majority, in its wisdom, saw fit to shut those voices out; and this rule makes in order a partisan…

And thank my friend from Maryland for yielding. Madam Speaker, it is not lost on me that you are in the chair for this debate; and having put in the years that you have put in working on this issue, I know you couldn't be down here for…

I will close by saying we may disagree about, again, the breadth of the overall legislation, but as it comes to this individual line-item, we are talking primarily about accidental releases of a very important firefighting foam but one…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 47, line 7, insert ``, Federal Aviation Administration,'' after ``U.S. Fire Administration''. Page 47, line…